diff --git a/examples/pyplots/auto_subplots_adjust.py b/examples/pyplots/auto_subplots_adjust.py
index 5575643bd874..e6eb620168ac 100644
--- a/examples/pyplots/auto_subplots_adjust.py
+++ b/examples/pyplots/auto_subplots_adjust.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 :doc:`draw_event</users/event_handling>`.
 
 Note that a similar result would be achieved using `~.Figure.tight_layout`
-or `~.Figure.contrained_layout`; this example shows how one could customize
+or `~.Figure.constrained_layout`; this example shows how one could customize
 the subplot parameter adjustment.
 """
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
diff --git a/tutorials/intermediate/constrainedlayout_guide.py b/tutorials/intermediate/constrainedlayout_guide.py
index 4d007b50a051..8699765f0e7f 100644
--- a/tutorials/intermediate/constrainedlayout_guide.py
+++ b/tutorials/intermediate/constrainedlayout_guide.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 * using the respective argument to :func:`~.pyplot.subplots` or
   :func:`~.pyplot.figure`, e.g.::
 
-      plt.subplots(contrained_layout=True)
+      plt.subplots(constrained_layout=True)
 
 * activate it via :ref:`rcParams<matplotlib-rcparams>`, like::